I was a fan of conference realignment until it yielded us Penn State, Nebraska, Rutgers and Maryland. Now that we've taken on Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA it's worse, though, for some reason, to me, Oregon and Washington feel more Big 10-like than Rutgers and Maryland, and certainly UCLA and USC.
Whatever, now that the dam's broke, where do we go from here? Does it matter?
Since we unfortunately can't go back to the original Big Ten let's get to 28 and end it. We'd pretty much have almost every TV market there is to get while stretching nicely across the entire country.
Add (TV markets in parenthesis):
Four pods of seven (play your pod and then one each of the other three, I don't even know how it would work for other sports):
Whatever, now that the dam's broke, where do we go from here? Does it matter?
Since we unfortunately can't go back to the original Big Ten let's get to 28 and end it. We'd pretty much have almost every TV market there is to get while stretching nicely across the entire country.
Add (TV markets in parenthesis):
- Georgia Tech (6)
- Arizona State (12)
- Colorado State (17) - NOTE: I know none of this is popular and Colorado State would be unpopular on top of that, but I hate Colorado so...
- North Carolina (21/23)
- Kansas (24/33)
- Kansas State (24/33)
- Utah (29)
- Clemson (36)
- Virginia (44)
- Louisville (49)
Four pods of seven (play your pod and then one each of the other three, I don't even know how it would work for other sports):
- Oregon
- Arizona State
- Washington
- USC
- UCLA
- Utah
- Colorado State
- Michigan
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Wisconsin
- Kansas
- Kansas State
- Ohio State
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Louisville
- Northwestern
- Michigan State
- Purdue
- Penn State
- Clemson
- North Carolina
- Rutgers
- Maryland
- Virginia
- Georgia Tech
